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This past weekend, our LSC had our Coaches and House of Delegates Meeting. These meetings take place in the Fall and Spring. For those of you who do not know, I sit on the Executive Board for Missouri Valley as the Age Group Chair. Jolisa does as well, as the LSC Treasurer. The evening before this meeting, I met with our Senior Chair and Coach Representative to talk about the state of our LSC. We had some great discussion about how we are making improvements in conducting better Championship Meets...
Remember......to get FAST: You HAVE to work on your STROKE TECHNIQUE everyday! and You HAVE to TRAIN HARD everyday! and You Have to GET STRONGER in & out of the pool, multiple times per week! and You Have to FUEL YOURSELF and GET ENOUGH REST, as a way of life! _______ By accomplishing ONE of these things, we may create mediocre athletes within ourselves & our teams. By accomplishing TWO of these things, we may create REGIONAL level success for ourselves & our teams. By accomplishing THREE...
Congrats to the following swimmers that collected the largest flat donations for Week 1: $105 - Janet Stefanov and Nicholas Stefanov $100- Iris Sherron, Payton Krug, Lauren Amrein, and J.T. Amrein $65- David Christie $60- Maleena Hatfield $50- Chris Berry and Emily Venters WAY TO GO!!! And thank you for helping support AAAA!
Week 2 Swim-A-Thon Challenge: This week’s challenge is the highest number of pledges and donations thus far (Not dependent on amount of money- just number of pledges and donations). Deadline: Friday September 28th Email Coach Katie your total number of pledges/donations collected over the past 2 weeks.
Each week leading up the Swim-A-Thon we will have weekly challenges. The challenges will keep the swimmers motivated and focused. It will keep them excited and teach them about achieving goals. WEEK 1 SWIM-A-THON CHALLENGE Challenge: Largest Flat Donation From One Donor Deadline: Friday, September 21st *Email Coach Katie with Your Largest Flat Donation from one donor*
1. What is a Swim‐A‐Thon®? Swim‐a‐Thon® is a fundraiser in which participants earn money for their team by swimming lengths of the pool. Swimmers have a two‐hour period to swim a maximum of 200 lengths. Participants get pledges from businesses, family, neighbors, etc. prior to swimming. Some choose to get pledges and money prior to swimming while others get pledges per length and collect the money following the Swim‐a‐Thon®. With over 500 Swim‐a‐Thons® conducted each year, this program has proven itself over and over again as a successful method...
Dear AAAA Parents and Families, AAAA will be running a SWIM-A-THON® to help raise money for the club. USA SWIMMING sponsors the SWIM-A-THON® and will help us throughout the process. I have attached an informational PDF that explains all of the details. This is not required, but is an event not just about fundraising. It includes 6 weeks of team bonding, intra-team competitions, and personal incentives. There are even national SWIM-A-THON® records that can be broken. A SWIM-A-THON® is where each participant earns money for their team...
